Banipal 65 celebrates Iraq novelist and poet Fadhil Al-Azzawi, renowned for his “conceptual leaps, rich references and linguistic surprises”. Ariel Dorfman described him as “an Iraqi master poet who opens up all the despair and tenderness of our times”. Plus fiction and poetry from Kuwait, Yemen, Morocco, Egypt and Palestine.

Translated by: William M Hutchins, Nancy Roberts, Sophia Vasalou